Firing The Messenger

June 10, 2002

In ``AIDS Talk Costs Job'' [Connecticut, June 7], nowhere does it indicate that Nancy Ahern, a constituent service aide in the governor's office, was not telling the truth when she indicated to Fred Hammond that AIDS is spread by minority men and homosexuals, and that prevention programs are pretty ineffective.

Obviously she was fired for being ``insensitive'' and politically incorrect when speaking to Mr. Hammond. He, as director of an AIDS program, should have known her words were pretty much the truth. Much of the same information has been printed by The Courant in articles on sexually transmitted diseases.